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This season of American Gladiators brought us some really swell new challenges, I'm a big fan of Tilt, Sideswipe, and Snapback. It also brought us some new gladiators, but, and I'm being honest here, none of them hold a candle to Crush.
Though the May Sweep isn't yet over, it seems as thought he summer television season has arrived. Not only is perennial summer fare like Hell's Kitchen in full swing, but tonight the second season of American Gladiators began, and if that doesn't feel like "summer television," I don't know what does.
It seems like just last week that we were sitting here, putting on our spandex for the first time in 15 (or so) years and watching the brand-spanking new American Gladiators.
The basic problem with a two-hour edition of American Gladiators, as I may have hinted at last week, is not that there's not enough action in the show, but rather that there are far too many commercials and far too many commercial breaks.
For the semifinals of American Gladiators, NBC opted to up the episode time from 60 minutes to 90. That meant that the network could squeeze in even more awkwardly spaced, momentum killing, commercial breaks (they also added an extra event).
With the Presidential speechifying over tonight it was time for American Gladiators (unless you live in a different part of the country than I and saw Gladiators first).
Every week the Hulkster says it, and every week it's just as cheesy. It's true, but it's cheesy -- welcome to "American Gladiator Monday!"
Tonight American Gladiators featured pain. Some people on the show felt it, and I, sitting at home, certainly felt it (though for a different reason). The contestant pain we'll get to, but my pain can't wait.
After watching two hours of American Gladiators last night I was moderately worried that an hour tonight would be overkill. I was worried that tonight would prove to be too much of a good thing. It wasn't.
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